| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bel Powley | ... | Minnie | |
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Willie | ... | Domino the Cat |
| Kristen Wiig | ... | Charlotte | |
| Abby Wait | ... | Gretel (as Abigail Wait) | |
| Alexander Skarsgård | ... | Monroe | |
| Miranda Bailey | ... | Andrea | |
| Carson Mell | ... | Michael Cocaine | |
| John Parsons | ... | Burt | |
| Madeleine Waters | ... | Kimmie | |
| Austin Lyon | ... | Ricky Wasserman | |
| Quinn Nagle | ... | Chuck | |
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Davy Clements | ... | Arnie |
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Charles Lewis III | ... | Cool English Teacher |
| David Fine | ... | Old Hippie | |
| Susannah Rogers | ... | Aline Kominsky (voice) (as Susannah Schulman) | |
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
It's 1976 San Francisco. Fifteen year old Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is overjoyed at losing her virginity to her mother Charlotte (Kristen Wiig)'s boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). They begin a secret affair. Minnie and her friend Kimmie Minter get into various adult situations. Her stepfather Pascal MacCorkill (Christopher Meloni) wants to stay in her and her sister Gretel's lives. She records tapes of her diary and draws inspired by cartoonist Aline Kominsky.
This takes a less conventional look at the sexual coming-of-age story from the female perspective. It is not flowers and puppies. It is highly sexual in nature. It is unflinching. My main problem is that Bel is a little too old to play the fifteen year old. I rather have a younger actress do the role without the nudity. There is a shock with a man having sex with a young girl that is missing in this movie. She looks 20s. I'm reminded of Heather Matarazzo in 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' and the shock of that sexual subject matter. This movie has the same shocking subject.